Biography

I have taught at Manchester University since 1990, was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1998, and to Professor in 2006. I was Director of Graduate Studies in the former Faculty of Arts (1998-2001), and have continued to be centrally involved in postgraduate teaching and supervision. I am on the editorial board of the leading UK journal in German Studies, German Life and Letters, and regularly review articles for other journals (The German Quarterly, Seminar, Gegenwartsliteratur). I was a founder member of Women in German Studies and organised its 10th anniversary conference in Manchester in 1998, and I have been actively involved in the Internationale Verein für Germanistik (attending its conferences in Vancouver 1995, Vienna 2000, Paris 2005 and Warsaw 2010). In Vienna 2000 I co-chaired the panel Geschlechtsforschung und Literaturwissenschaft. From 2006-2008 I was co-director of the AHRC-funded Migration and Diaspora Cultural Studies Network in Manchester. From 2012-2015 I was Germanic Studies representative on the Executive Committee of the University Council for Modern Languages (UCML), and I am currently President of the Association for German Studies in the UK and Ireland (AGS).

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Teaching Areas:

Undergraduate

GERM 30510 German Language

GERM10350 German Cultural Studies

LALC 20481 Translating New Writing

GERM 30632 New German Identities: Turkish-German Culture

LALC 10002 Introduction to World Cinema

Postgraduate

MA in Languages and Cultures (by research)

MATIS supervision in German-English translation topics

MAIC: I convene the course 'Border Crossings: Comparative Cultures of Diaspora' for the MA in Intercultural Communication

Research Students:

I am currently supervisor of one PhD Student, and have supervised ten PhDs to completion:

Chris Gribble (2001) Theodor W. Adorno and Paul Celan

Elaine Ellery (2006) German-Jewish Literary Expression in the Third Reich with particular reference to Gertrud Kolmar

Kate Roy (2008) Cartographies of Identity in the Works of Emine Sevgi Özdamar and Leila Sebbar

Pauline Eyre (2010) Permission to Speak: Representations of the Disabled Body in German Women's Literature of the 1970s and 1980s